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The Manchester Declaration
The UK community repair movement came together for the first time at Fixfest UK on 6 October 2018, and wrote the following Declaration
To UK policymakers, product manufacturers and designers,
We are repair volunteers and activists representing community groups running Repair Cafés and Restart Parties across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Our community repair events give a second lease of life to all kinds of products that failed prematurely: small kitchen appliances, computers, radios, furniture, lamps, clothes, bikes and much more.
Most importantly, they offer practical, fun and inspiring opportunities for everyone to collaboratively learn new skills, building community connections, well-being and belonging, while preventing unnecessary waste.
By focusing on people and the planet, we hint at the future we want – a future where repair is a thriving sector of our economy; products are easy to repair and manufacturers provide spare parts for as long as possible.
We know that it’s not enough to repair in our communities, yet the success of our activities signals that an alternative to mountains of waste exists, if we make it a priority.
We are part of a growing movement pushing for our Right to Repair worldwide, alongside independent repair businesses and citizens frustrated with the early obsolescence of most of today’s products.
We ask UK legislators and decision-makers at all levels, as well as product manufacturers and designers, to stand with us for our Right to Repair, by making repair more accessible and affordable, and ensuring that we adopt product standards making products better supported, well documented and easier to repair by design.
Signatories
FIXFEST = declaration co-author
Community repair groups
- Ashburton Repair Café
- Banbury Community Action Group
- Bath Share & Repair
- Bewdley Repair Café
- Boothstown Repair Café
FIXFEST
- Brighton Repair Café
FIXFEST
- Cambridge Repair Café
- Canton Repair Cafe Cardiff
- Cirencester Repair Café
- Cottenham Repair Café
- Crystal Palace Fixers
FIXFEST
- Crediton Repair Café
- Didcot Repair Cafe
- Durham Free Software Skill-Share
- Eyam Repair Café
- Farnham Repair Café
- Fordingbridge Repair Café
- Fulbourn Repair Café
- Hackney Fixers
FIXFEST
- Hillingdon Friends of the Earth / Restarters West London
FIXFEST
- Hinckley Fixers
- Horsham Repair Cafe
- Kidderminster Repair Cafe
- Leicester Fixers
FIXFEST
- Levenshulme Repair Cafe
- Lichfield Repair & Share Cafe
- Lincoln Repair Café
- Llandrindod Repair Café
- Long Eaton Repair Café
- Lover Repair Cafe
- Malvern Hills Repair Cafe
FIXFEST
- Market Harborough Fixers
- Melton Space
- North Hampshire Repair Cafe
- Nottingham Fixers
FIXFEST
- Oswestry and Borders Repair Cafe
- Penrith Repair Cafe
- re:Centre Lancaster
- Reading Repair Cafe
FIXFEST
- Repair Café Belfast
FIXFEST
- Repair Cafe Clydach
- Repair Cafe Conwy
- Repair Cafe Coventry
- Repair Café Glasgow
FIXFEST
- Repair Café Gosport
- Repair Café Leamington Spa
- Repair Café Leeds
FIXFEST
- Repair Cafe Maidenhead
- Repair Café Plymouth
- Repair Café Portsmouth
- Repair Café Redditch
- Repair Café Wales
FIXFEST
- Restarters Kensal to Kilburn
- Repair Cafe Winscombe
- Restarters Tooting
- Sewing Café Lancaster
- SHARE: A Library of Things / Frome Repair Cafe
- SHARE Oxford
FIXFEST
- Sherborne Repair Cafe
- Sidmouth Repair Café
- Soham Repair Café
- Southampton Repair Café
- Splott Repair Café
- St Dogmaels Repair Cafe
- Stanford in the Vale Repair Café
- Stitched Up Co-operative – Manchester Repair Café
FIXFEST
- Sustainable Wantage Repair Café
- Swansea, Clydach Repair Cafe
- The Pembrokeshire Remakery
FIXFEST
- The Restart Project
FIXFEST
- Transition Buxton Repair Cafe
- Transition Chesterfield Repair Cafe
FIXFEST
- Transition Wilmslow Repair Cafe
- Waterbeach Repair Café
- West Fleetwood Computer Clinic
Ally groups
- Bioregional and the Transform Together Initiative
- Borrow Don’t Buy Plymouth
- Community Action Groups Devon
- Cracked It
- Derbyshire Climate Coalition
- EEESafe
- Friends of the Earth
- Global Action Plan
- Green Alliance
- Greenpeace UK
- The Institute for White Goods Engineers
- Keep Britain Tidy
- Library of Things
- New Economics Foundation
- Possible
- Remade Network
- Reuse Network
- Transition Network
- UK Men’s Sheds Association
- Wavemaker Stoke
Political endorsements
- Fleur Anderson, MP
LABOUR
- Jonathan Bartley, Former Co-Leader (signed 2019)
GREEN PARTY
- Siân Berry, Former Co-Leader (signed 2019)
GREEN PARTY
- Vince Cable, Former Leader (signed 2019)
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
- Anneliese Dodds, MP
LABOUR
- Robert Goodwill, MP
CONSERVATIVE
- Helen Hayes, MP
LABOUR
- Meg Hillier, MP
LABOUR
- Wera Hobhouse, MP
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
- Clive Lewis, MP
LABOUR
- Caroline Lucas, MP
GREEN PARTY
- Penny Mordaunt, MP
CONSERVATIVE
- Helen Morgan, MP
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
- Stephen Morgan, MP
LABOUR
- Caroline Nokes, MP
CONSERVATIVE
- Cat Smith, MP
LABOUR
- Alex Sobel, MP
LABOUR
- Tulip Siddiq, MP
LABOUR
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